New Year's Resolutions

I have made the following New Year's Resolutions for 2009. In no particular order.

1. Lose 30 lbs (this has been on my list for four years)
2. Graduate (I just need to pass my final four classes, easier said than done)
3. Actually contribute to society by holding a full time job
4. Help Brian Walker get a girlfriend
5. Help myself get a girlfriend
6. Move to Phoenix (not sure if this is a resolution, but I'm going to do it!)
7. Do everything I can to help the Utah Jazz win the NBA title
8. Go to the BYU-ASU game in Tempe, AZ in September
9. Begin investing
10. Come up with some more resolutions.

What to do with the Booz...

Recently Carlos Boozer announced that he will opt out of his contract with the Utah Jazz at the end of the season. If Boozer opts out he will become an unrestricted free agent and will essentially sign with the team that offers him the most money. If he opts out the Jazz will be left with nothing in return. This leaves us with the question, what should the Jazz do with Boozer? They have two options.
The first option would be to trade him now before he can opt out so they can actually get someone in return for him. I am leaning towards this option.
The second option would be to let him opt out and hope that they can resign him. This is very risky. This also isn't ideal because the Jazz are near the salary cap imposed by the NBA and if they go over the salary cap they will have to a dollar for dollar tax to the league for every dollar that they go over the cap. They really can't afford to offer him more money. Also, the Jazz need to decide if they want to keep Paul Millsap who also becomes a free agent at the end of the season. If they want to keep Millsap they will need to offer him more money, which essentially forces the Jazz to decide between Boozer or Millsap.
What should the Jazz do?

Address....Jansport?

Some of you may have noticed that in my address to my blog is the word "jansport.'' Jansport is a nickname that I have had among my friends since I was in elementary school. The story goes like this.
I was in my sixth grade graduation from elementary school. They had printed our names with fancy writing and when 'Ian' was written fancy it appeared to the person reading the names as 'Jan'. So in front of the whole sixth grade I was introduced as 'Jan Prescott'. Consequently my friends (Chad Walker being the chief culprit) started calling me Jansport (after the popular backpack company) and the name stuck.

New Blog

After much pushing from friends I have decided to start my own blog. Up until now I have always considered my facebook account to be my blog but have now realized that having a blog is much better. I hope you enjoy reading my blog and I hope that I can make my life exciting enough so that you can be entertained.